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Monthly Archives: June 2011

Manufacturing machines

Employers are still on the hunt for skilled workers

Politicians like to talk about jobs and how, when they’re elected, they will magically fix the economy. All parties make this claim, but job creation is a strange monster that has a mind of its own. Figuring out which jobs are disappearing, which will never come back, which brand new ones will arise, and how we can influence any of it is a Herculean task. Continue reading

By in How to search, The right job, Who's hiring

August Hiring

Companies hiring this week

This morning on Twitter, I asked job seekers how they were ringing in the first official day of summer. One person eagerly responded that she had just accepted a temporary position. A new job seems like one of the best ways I can think to begin the summer. Continue reading

By in How to search, The right job

sleeping job seeker

The myth of the summer hiring slowdown

The summer vacations of our school days might have ended a decade or two ago, but many of us still think of summertime as vacation time. It’s like a “less work, more play” instinct kicks in for most people — and at most offices — around June 1. Continue reading

By in How to search, News and trends

jobs by state

Which states have the best and worst job markets right now?

One of the most frequently asked questions of the post-recession is, “Where are the jobs?” And we dutifully attempt to point you in the right direction, whether it’s our weekly list of companies hiring, a monthly list of companies hiring, or our occasional look at the state of employment around the country. Continue reading

By in How to search, The right job, Who's hiring

Working dad

Working dads spending more time at the office

Today’s average family looks nothing like the households on 1950s black-and-white TV, where the father wore a suit and tie and mom wore a dress and pearls to do housework. In fact, it’s hard to imagine your average family ever looked like “Father Knows Best” or “Leave it to Beaver.” The families in those shows didn’t face the same serious problems that most families do. Continue reading

By in Surveys, The right job, Work/Life

Fatherly advice

Some fatherly (career) advice

Terms like “fatherly advice” and “father knows best” are common for a reason. Dads give pretty sound advice (regardless of how off-color, unwanted or blunt it seems at the time).

During childhood, their wisdom may have helped us see a situation in a new way (“The smart kids may not be the cool ones now, but they’re the ones everyone will want to be in 20 years.”), and as we got older, it may have confirmed things we already knew deep down (“I didn’t want to have to tell you this, but that guy you’re dating is a jerk.”). Continue reading

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